Harness.



No. 703,789.- Patented luly l, I902.

A. L. HAWKINS.

HARNESS.

(Application filed July 29, 1901.\

(No Modei.)

WITNESSES: IN VENTOI? A TTOHN NrrEo STATES AT'ENT Fries.

AUGUSTUS IIONGSTREET HAWKINS, OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH M. PAGE, OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS.

HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 703,789, dated July 1, 1902.

Application filed July 29, I901.

1!.0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS LONGSTREET HAWKINS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Georgetown, in the county of 5 \Villiamson and State of Texas, haveinventeda new and Improved Harness, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a light and serviceable harness of few pieces so constructed that the traces will extend from a front singletree to a pointat or near the saddle and bellyband, the collarof the harness being dispensed with and a shoulder-strap being employed instead and which serves as a support for the forward singletree.

The invention consists in the novelconstruction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth,

and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, in which similar characters of reference indi- 2 5 cats corresponding-"parts in both figures.

Figure l is a plan view of the improved harness and shafts of a vehicle; and Fig. 2" isa perspective view of theforward singletree, a draft bar and strap, and connected 0 parts drawn upon an enlarged scale.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the shafts of a vehicle, 13 a saddle, and G sleeves carried by the saddle and adapted to receive the shafts A and to be secured thereto in any suitable manner. A draft-bar D, forwardly curved at its central portion, is adapted to be located in front of the breast of the animal, and at the rear of the draft-bar D a draftstrap E is located, the ends of which strap are passed through openings d in the ends of the draft-bar D and are secured to the front face of the draft-bar by buttons d or their equivalents. The draftstrap E is drawn more or less taut at the back of the draftbar, and this strap is adapted to come directly in engagement with the breast of the animal."

At thecenter of the draft-bar D aforwardlyextending stud F is formed, and on this stud F a singletree G is adapted to laterally rock.

were placed in the usual position.

This singletree G is a substitute for the ordi- Serial No. 70,080. (No model.)

nary singletree carried by the connecting-bar of the shafts, and said forward singletree G is provided with openings 9 at its ends. At these openings g the forward portions of short traces H are secured, the rear ends of the said traces being provided with snaps h, as shown in Fig. 1, adapted for engagement with eyes 0 or their equivalents carried by the sleeves O.

In order that the animal shall have purchase inbacking-and, furthermore, in order to support the draft-bar, draft-strap, and singletree, a shoulder-strap I is provided, and this strap is secured at one end at't' to a rocking bar J, mounted on the stud F, while the other end of the shoulder-strap is connected with the opposite end of the rocking bar, preferably' by means of a snap '6 It will be observed that the harness consists of but few parts outside of the bridle and that the singletree being placed at the front enables the traces to be shortened and produces the same result as if the singletree The horse being unhamperedat its'body with the heavy harness usually employed has greater freedom'of movement, and when the harness is constructed as described'by' disengaging the snap i from the rocking bar J, unbuckling the 8o belly-band, and disengaging one trace from one of the sleeves O the animal may leave the shafts when the same, with harness attached are raised off the animal, the harness remaining connected with the shafts and ready to be applied to the animal when the vehicle is to be again used. The backing and holding back is all done with the belly-band of the saddle.

Having thus described my invention, I 0 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In harness, a forward draft-bar, a singletree mounted upon the forward side of the draft-bar, and a rocking. shoulder-strap bar 5 carried by the draft-bar, as set forth.

2. In harness,a forward draft bar, a singletree mounted-on the forward sideof the draft-bar, and a rocking shoulder-strap bar mounted between the said draft-bar and sin- 10o gletree, as set forth.

In.harness, a sin gletree, a forward draftbar upon the front sides of which the singletree is mounted, said bar being provided with an opening at each end through which the traces attached to the singletree are adapted to pass, and a shoulder-strap bar carried by the draft-bar, as set forth.

4. In harness, asingletree, aforward draftbar upon the front side of which the singletree is pivotally mounted, said bar being provided with an opening at each end through which the traces attached to the singletree are adapted to pass, and a pivotaily-mounted shoulder-strap bar between the singietree and draft-bar, as set forth.

5. In harness, a draft-bar having an opening at each end, and provided with a central forwardly-projecting stud, a singletree pivotally'mounted on the end of the stud, and a shoulder-strap bar pivotally mounted on the stud between the sin gietree and draft-bar, as 20 set forth.

I I 6. In harness, a curved draft-bar having AUGUSTUS LONGSTREET HAWKINS.

Witnesses:

O. H. GEE, J. E. NEAL. 

